Button ob garment-fastener



R. BOEKLEN 8u' W. 'STAEHLEN GA-RMENT PASTBNBR.

Patented Aug. 13, 1861.

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R. BOEKLEN AND W. STAEHLEN, OF BROOKLYN, `NEW YORK.

BUTTON OR GARTJIENT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 33,025, dated August 13, 1861.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that we, R. Bo KLnN and lV. SranHLnN, both ot Brooklyn, in the county ot' Kings and State of New York, havel invented a new and useful improvement in Garment-Fasteners; and we do hereby declare that the following a full, clear, and exact description ot the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making part of this specification, in which* Figure l, represents a front elevation of a coat with our improved fastening, before the coat is buttoned. Fig. 2, is a similar view of the same, after the coat is buttoned. Fig. 3, is a transverse, vertical section of a modification of the same when the garment is buttoned. Fig. 4, is a similar View of the same, with the garment in the act of being unbuttoned. Fig. 5, is a front elevation ot' another Vn'iodilication of the same, 'when buttoned.

Fig. G, is a. transverse, vertical section of the same. Fig. 7, is t'ront elevation of still another modication. Fig. 7*, is a transverse, vertical section of a portion ot' the same. Fig. 8, is a transverse, vertical section of the same. Fig. 9, is an inside view of one part of the same. Fig. 10, is a transverse, vertical section of the last-mentioned modification, when the garment is buttoned.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of two disks one being attached to one and the other to the other side of a garment, and one being provided with an opening while the other is furnished with a cam of peculiar form and corresponding with the opening in the irst disk, in such a manner that it may be introduced into the said opening when is turned in a certain position, and that, when entered, it is prevented from coming out, unless brought back to the same position, (that in which it was introduced) so that, in fact, the irst disk, with the opening, forms a substitute for a button-hole, and the second disk, with the cam, a substitute for a button. l

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, we will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawing.

The disk, A, which takes the place ot the button-hole, and which is provided with an opening, a, is secured to one side of a coat, or other garment, either on the outside (as shown in Figs. l, 2, S and 10), or on the inside shown in F 8, 5 and G) and it may be made of various shapes, in the forni ot a button, as shown in Fig. l, or covered up, as shown in Fig. 8, or with a cavity, as shown in Fig. l0.

The disk, B, which takes the place of the button, and which is provided with the cam, 7), is secured to the other side of the coa-t, or other garment, either in the ordinary manner-by means of thread and a needle-or in any other convenient manner, on the inside or on the. outside; andthe cam is either circular or oval, accordino` to the form of the opening in the corresponding disk, A. lf the opening be oval, as shown in Figs. 8 and 9, lthe cam may be made slightly oval or circular, but it the opening be round, as shown in Figs. l, 2, 3 and a, the cam only is made oval. The diameter of the cam is so proportioned in regard to the opening in the corresponding disk that it (the cam) has to be turned edgewise in order to enable it to be introduced into the opening, and when thus entered, it can only be taken out if turned back to the same position in which it was entered, so that the cam with the opening act precisely in the same manner as an ordinary button and button-hole.

It our device be properly attached to a coat or other garment, it can be buttoned up with the same facility as with the ordinary buttons and button-holes, and the labor nec essary to make the button-holes and to keep them in order is obviated. In order to render the action of the cam still more secure, we have arranged it so that its lower surface is slightly-inclined, as clearly shown in Figs. 3, 4L, 6 and l0, the distance between the edge, c, of said cam being larger than that of the sponding opening, so long as the two disks remain in parallel planes, the edge, c, of the cam will bear on the edge of the opening, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 6, and if the two disks be attached to the two sides of the garment in such a manner that the disk, B, will stand slightly below the disk, A, then the cam will be forced down toward the edge, c, and it will remain in the position clearly represented in Fig. 3. Then thus arranged, the cam will retain its position much more securely than it will if both its edges, c, CZ, be allowed to touch the edges of edge (Z. It the cam is entered into the correthe opening, and should it be desired to take out the cain, or in other Words, to u nbutton the garment, it (the cam) has to be brought to the position shown in Fig. 4, that is to say, the two disks have to be inclined toward each other inore than they would have to be when the lower or inner surface of the cani is parallel to the disk to which it is attached.

This device forms a Very simple, cheap and durable fastening for garments, and it can be used in all places Where the ordinary buttons and button-holes are used.

lhat 'We claim as new and desire to se R. BOEKLEN. W. STAEHLEN.

TWitnesses M. SINCLAIR, FREDERICK SWAR'rs. 

